Animals In The Desert Region

California is home to a wide range of different landscapes and ecosystems including desert.

Animals in the desert region. The addax is known for its characteristic crooked horns. Different types of animals and plants exist in the different desert types of the world that include hot coastal. A grass called Astridia is the staple food of addax.

It has particularly extensive desert in the southern part of the state near the Mexican border. Other animals come out only at night. Others live along the edges of deserts where there are more plants and shelter.

Desert animals also known as Xerocoles are the mammals which are adapted to living in the desert. Desert animals include coyotes and bobcats spiders such as the black widow scorpions rattlesnakes lizards and many kinds of birds all especially adapted to the desert biome. Because of this specialization a desert can appear to be lifeless to the untrained eye.

Most of these animals are either crepuscular or nocturnal. They are also known as the gold-wolf common jackal and Asiatic jackal. Reptiles such as the thorny devil Gila monster and sidewinder rattlesnake.

Apart from the dromedary camel and goats the desert hosts the highly feared deathstalker scorpion the extremely venomous sand viper the elegant and fierce cheetah the graceful gazelles the swift-footed red-necked ostrich and other unique and magnificent species. Reptiles such as snakes and lizards and small birds are the primary. Desert animals have had to become very specialized in order to survive.

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